those explosives were struggling. to keep. the i.a.e.a. has absolutely no ability to deal with this problem any more than the japanese government but aren't they the very people who showed up so just where is the international atomic energy agency as japan nears a nuclear meltdown. and while general electric may be off the whole in japan of course their business in india be on the chopping block. the boss for the moment for a lot of people. and so is the people's trust in their government so is it the system that's in decline or has the us set up to fail all along. and an uncertain resolution the us is passing on a no fly zone for libya but instead a plan for

a range of military strikes so how will the u.n. security council vote we'll have an update. it's thursday march seventeenth five pm in washington d.c. i'm christine for sound watching our t.v. our developing crisis an unprecedented disaster topping talking of course about the situation in japan at the fukushima daiichi plant so dangerous in fact that our team has pulled its crews out of the area well workers at the power plant and japanese authorities rushed against the clock there's another agency that seems to be moving at a snail's pace and talking about the i.a.e.a. international atomic energy agency responsible for keeping tabs on all cases of peaceful use of nuclear power argues arena glu school reports on its role in the crisis which appears now to be pretty minimal. i missed reports that radiation

levels in the japanese capital could be up to eleven times the norm people scramble to get away from the invisible killer here in tokyo series do seem to be less visible than usual at the epicenter of the plans nuclear disaster fifty people remain struggling to keep the reactors under control but wait where is the international atomic energy agency the exponents of the peaceful use of nuclear power there here in japan arriving four days after the first explosion at the nuclear plant the i.a.e.a. as well as a promoter of nuclear power whose job is not to necessarily be able to come to the rescue of failed attempts at maintaining quality design and and protecting the public from natural disaster such as we're dealing with here although they'll sell that message when the train approved when the proof is in the pudding you can clearly see that the i.a.e.a. has absolutely no ability to deal with this problem any more than the japanese government the very people who should be keeping tabs on the situation seemed to

have bear little direct involvement in it and in fact until now the only source of information was the japanese government for years the organization has been busy with their mission statement to maintain nuclear energy for peaceful means in two thousand and five and with increased inspections of raining facilities the organization and its then chairman mohamed el baradei i was rooted in nobel peace prize but by the looks of it concerns over a possible unsanctioned he uses of nuclear energy by countries like iran seem to have overshadowed the clear and present dangers of already existing nuclear power plants in countries like japan and now if they remain in workers who have to battle fire smoke and radiation at what remains of the fukushima power plant there's only fifty people allowed in the plants of their work and fifteen minute shifts which is which is very little and they have to work very many things going. hands because

remote control installations have gone down the main operating room is not usable because of radiation levels they're working under extremely difficult circumstances to try to prevent the worst from the worst with all six reactors showing signs of instability only fifty people remain face to face with a problem putting their lives at risk while the high in my view brady's seem to conform to watch on from a safe distance in glasgow r.t. tokyo or the fire with some of the stockholders may fear general electric is unlikely to be held liable for the failure of those nuclear reactors at the fukushima plant in japan still there is some reaction to this on a global scale including in a country that has lately been dripping in development i'm talking about india and our prayers river is in new delhi with more. reaction here in india has been mixed especially considering that the chairman of g.e. jeffrey immelt was actually in india this week promoting his company's interest in

investing millions of dollars into india's nuclear program which is similar to be worth around one hundred fifty billion dollars he announced that he plans to spend five million dollars here within the next five years but obviously many indians are worried about what they're seeing over in japan as you mentioned g.e. did design those nuclear reactors that have caused so much damage and destruction in fukushima and according to japanese law she will not be held liable for any of god which could save them potentially tens to hundreds of billions of dollars now this comes on top of a huge scandal that's rocking india today wiki leaks the whistle blowing web site actually released thousands of cables so knowing that americans knew about bribes to indian politicians to make them sign that the u.s. indo nuclear deal back in two thousand and eight so that's clearly not helping american image here in the subcontinent right now as i stated before it one hundred

fifty billion dollars business here in india india is planning on increasing its nuclear atomic generation thirteen times by twenty thirty so there are several american companies not just g.e. that are very keen on trying to get a stake in that but as of right now india doesn't want to have another potential disaster like what they're seeing over in japan happening here especially given the fact that she isn't really being held responsible or accountable for what's happening over there so only time will tell but as you've seen since the days following the disaster g.e. stocks have been tumbling so you know we're going to have to wait and see what effect that has on its future plans to build nuclear reactors around the world and here in india as well. that was r.c. correspondent prius rather from new delhi india. and certainly india is in the race to move ahead but many people here in america point out a certain decline that's taken place has even become a catchphrase lately for many of the potential republican presidential candidates

for the two thousand and twelve election american decline mired in two wars and confronting a thirteen trillion dollar deficit americans are increasingly getting fed up with the fed and they're taking to the streets are just killing ford has more on the policies and politics that are breaking down confidence in america itself. what began with conic a has the right watch. a speech in which we do in the widening well. there's no reason that everybody. ard. it's not the top two percent should get everything the level of competence in the us and government is the lowest thirty five years according to the bowl ad budgets go broke and both parties want. to

raise it to big corporations and lobbyists were seen at high jacking let the market see. that. the primary. one in occupied the office demanding the return of collective bargaining rights in wisconsin in a prop united states and saying maybe in a pack a lot in the past on on until we get the intention of the entire united states working class families and will be in every state in every city and tell the recognition is here it's a symptom of the growing unrest spreading across america as food prices rose three point one percent in february the cereal to vet when all the stuff is going to move . every summer going to select one to succeed on and on get a lot of food the largest monthly gain in thirty six years that's the tragedy of inflation it redistribute income from some people get the new or to the people who

get the new money first and from the people that whose hides with waiters that do not rise couples with the highest gasoline cost for american households expected to reach two thousand eight hundred dollars this year to the federal reserve monetary policies are squeezing regular american drama people are or are being stretched financially and i think some of them are also gold because they see the dismissive attitude of the federal reserve. and the speculation on wall street has brought more hunger the main street the american dream is a bust for the moment for a lot of people. but not i i would say for the bankers in the speculators on wall street today and they are nimble enough and they operate in very. liquid market will be a cause like stocks bonds commodities that kind of thing so they're able to preserve their wealth and inflationary more. than rest could even be a highly educated thousand and twelve campaign but whether either party will be

able to control it harnessing its prestige its political. here in port arthur washington d.c. . so as we're seeing more and more and killing just reported confidence in the u.s. system of government at its lowest point in thirty five years with just twenty six percent of americans saying they're optimistic about our government and how well it works this is according to a new a.b.c. news washington post poll so what does this all mean particularly when looking ahead to an uncertain future that helps answer this question i go to austin texas where radio host alex jones is. all right alex you and i have spoken about this before and here it is these blaring numbers not nine hundred seventy four have people had this flow of confidence in the system of government and this is the year remember that president nixon resigned just after the most part the unpopular war the vietnam war and here we are today what do you think americans are so worried about. well you notice the tea party shangri and then you've also got the so-called

left with the unions who are angry but this is the wages of globalism this is been the globalist plan wall street financed john mccain they financed barack obama barack obama run by wall street openly has called for more taxes because they're going to transfer those taxes offshore to the big mega central banks that are represented here in the u.s. by the private federal reserve so it's going to happen is the government is going to use these giant hordes of people having their wages cut losing their insurance having their pension funds raided loose upon what's left of the middle class chain give us a piece of the pie they're going to take people who are making one hundred thousand two hundred thousand dollars they're going to take their money and then they're never really even going to get it i got it and it's going to go to the bankers so this is all been very carefully orchestrated and they've done this in third world nations and european nations over and over again so it's a it's

a very sophisticated issue pressure from above and below instead of looking at the actual cause of this we're looking at the symptoms but this is nafta this is gap this is deindustrialization this is globalism this is the out of control regulation smothering jobs in north america and shipping of the third world in developing countries like china if you don't write off the one point five quadrillion into rivets created by the big six megabytes that we're paying most of our taxes to pay off that we don't owe if we go the way of greece and ireland who have signed on to a desk. but the bankers said then there's no way to get out of this you could get rid of all the wealth or you could get rid of the union you could get rid of social security and it would never pay off for a fraction of the one point five quadrillion the bankers engine you're going to take a once most powerful wealthy nation in the world and turn us in to get servants of the tea party doesn't understand it probably is very complex and the mainline

liberals are protesting change give us more of the pie the pot has been robbed the bankers are the right target the big central bankers but you don't defeat them by raising taxes and handing out some more chicken feet you defeat them arresting them for the crimes they've committed and writing off their one thousand five hundred trillion you talk about this large portions of the pie going to the bankers there's also another place that a lot of the pie is going to announce the defense budget is certainly in this poll there was another set of questions that was asked of the people these are questions related to the war in afghanistan now first of all the question is the war worth fighting sixty four percent said no and when asked whether or not president obama should start pulling troops out this summer as originally planned seventy three percent that's almost three quarters of this country say yes so alex who is right or just a month who is forever there right are the people. well the people are right and these wars are unconstitutional and illegal so it's also illegal what's happening

but the polls you're citing are quote scientific other scientific polls show eleven percent approval rating of congress show over eighty percent want to end the war they always say they're going to end the war in two years and now they've announced in two more years this is all a manipulation it's all basically psychological warfare and that's why the us is becoming more authoritarian because as it becomes evident the people are being ignored that we actually don't run this country there's going to be resistance now and it's like you see in the middle east and the governments answer is to clamp down the john war defense authorization act of two thousand and seven states that the pentagon is preparing for insurrection in the states and a suppressed state governors and legislatures we don't have a real government we have a rogue government that is basically looting this country and until you get a real government back in place any reform will only be twisted into a scam to further vertically integrate well so wall street its hundreds of billions

in bonuses every year either of those parasites go who are waging war on the real economy or there is no end in sight things are only going to get worst on this journey towards our well your nightmare and things like what you're saying alex that all sort of thurles back to the same place every time you were talking about unrest in the middle east we've also seen a little bit of it i hear in this country we certainly thought in with content we just found report pale and sad as it were thinking of it here do you think if it is perhaps the start of something bigger. oh undoubtedly the pentagon four years ago caught up with reports preparing for martial law and civil unrest but not pointing out what triggered it the food prices the commodities the dollar devaluation british ministry of defense four years ago as well this is all been planned out i've been to urban warfare drills in the last decade where they have a role players saying i'm in america don't take my guns don't put me in a camp and so my film released a two thousand and three on the web they have been preparing this the rand corporation has written plans of this is economic conquest by the author were

private banks against the entire world would you do what russia did and kick out the oligarchy and arrest them instead of letting them slowly rob us i think it's interesting that you brought up the food prices to this is certainly something that's very current we're getting new numbers out these prices continue to rise and that certainly are going to be passed on to those consumers what do you think i mean there's talk of inflation there's talk of different things but just in this growing number of hungry people in america talk about that as it relates to this if restoration with a system well as you know it goes like egypt half the population takes two dollars or less a j and here in this nation our courts spend inordinate amounts of their money on basic transportation and food and as food prices are the highest they've been in the end xs since the early one nine hundred seventy s. when people start losing everything in their bellies are going to have to get desperate and we now see reports that forty three states are technically bankrupt

and the federal government's preparing to bail them out with the federal government even more bankruptcy or to simply to grease or ireland and so again either we write off all this rosalyn debt start over make wall street take a severe haircut or these greedy people are going to like a horde of locusts eat the meat off our bones and fly off to the next country so it's just that simple and you know allies we don't usually talk too much about major international issues. but i was on your website earlier on president clinton i saw that you had written something about the pentagon as it relates to the situation in japan give us a sort of your take just very briefly on what you see as happening here well it's just like the guardian reports today about robot spake social network systems pushing us propaganda no it's bankers and criminal corporations that have seized the us it's their propaganda in america's name will not in my name and. it's the same thing that you were just talking about the cia is on record over in europe i

am managing things for general electric fukushima cataclysm that's happened so they can keep building more of these dangerous reactors all over the world because the cia doesn't work for us they work for wall street that created the cia and it runs our nation it's simple america does not run america that's why it's gone from a lot of liberty and admired of the example of human dignity and freedom of the example of the evil i'm part so just as the soviet empire was an evil one car ronald reagan called out this in part as even bigger and better and more scientific and it goes down or we all go down with it we don't have a choice it's us or them choose sides we're at a historic crossroads right now all right alex jones radio host of the alex jones show joining us from austin thank you. still ahead here are tea world leaders have different solutions approach libya's future so how will the u.n. security council books we'll have a live report. plus

a look at american policy poppers see when it comes to libya and bahrain these u.s. interests are weighing protesters minds. her and her broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture. new web site twenty four seventh's live streaming news towns like to do about the ongoing financial hardship unlimited free high quality videos for download. and stories you never saw on.

the political. posts on our teams are. all right let's turn out of the situation in libya right now the united nations is meeting to discuss what action if any to take since it appears the proca davi forces are continuing to gain ground and the violence there increases are the correspondent on a start you're going to is live in our new york studio not far from the u.n. and brings us this update on this as everyone understand there should be

a vote in just a couple of hours a what are you hearing. well christine certainly quite a few ads are probably being popped at the united nations security council as we speak with so many cooks in the kitchen trying to figure out exactly what how and when they're going to do in libya now we have heard that france has said that a vote should take place today at six pm but this is something that certainly raising eyebrows considering there's no consensus having been found amid members of the security council we know that this entire time france and britain have been pushing for a no fly zone revellers resolution to be established against libya whereas the united states surprisingly has remained silent on this issue for several weeks and all of a sudden came out yesterday to see that even a no fly zone resolution would be enough and they want more and they want harder measures to be taking place what is being called similar to shorts short to good

speaking on the ground now of course that means very serious intervention being considered and this is something that so far we know russia and china and india among others and germany have been opposing or not wanting a serious intervention in libya but we're going to have to wait and see whether or not this vote or meeting actually takes place today and what comes out of it unfairly here in washington we've been hearing from the president as you mentioned he said the no fly zone might not be enough but he's also said time and time again in this crisis started that he wanted to wait for the u.n. he wanted to wait for a decision by then and now it seems to me to yours thing that they're not as vocal there's a lot of different opinions there any idea which way it's waiting. certainly a lot of opinions christine like you said the u.s. has been saying that a no fly zone military intervention there are really beginning to push for this but they're also being very cautious and saying that they want to make sure that whoever ends up being on the ground or in the air is a u.n.

backed coalition and not american troops and they do insist that they want the region to really lead the way and that is why one of the draft having been proposed in the united nations was put on the table by lebannon the only member of the u.n. security council from that region so which way these these positions are going to swing there's no telling as of yet we're going to have to wait and see and then you'll be keeping your eyes on this for us talking to me let's let's walk back let's walk through libya and thirdly been a very very different response the country has had you know that the white house has had in the u.n. has had this compared to say an egypt or bahrain talk about that. well christine it is obviously very different from the situation in egypt we have seen the civil war breaking out in libya we know that could go off is now trying to take back the regions and really approaching the town of bint ghazi the mean sort of camp of the opposition and what exactly is going to happen there is remains to be

seen we have been hearing reports that he's going to allow the opposition to give them starting sunday an opportunity to lay down arms but with the mood on the ground that certainly looks unlikely for now and then before he said that he's not going to give up his son said that they're really trying to do their best to exterminate the opposition on the ground it's an interesting comments that cut off he needs he said he gives his description his view of what kind of situation we would see on the ground if this unrest continues to take a listen to that. so the situation in libya if you want. to will establish its rule . and live you will get transformed into northern afghanistan millions of refugees will fuel europe which will make the whole mediterranean region so firm with. northern africa and the west will be forced to fight in a counter dangerous challenges which. of course seen as certainly as qaddafi is

warning that the situation in the ground could become similar to what we're seeing take place in afghanistan one of the main questions that everybody continues asking as even if a resolution is passed to the united nations there no matter what the details of it are whether or not it's going to be a fact of whether or not it's going to be a voice that guy's going to be heard in libya which according to many experts for now looks unlikely because the situation has gotten so dire because of the civil war breaking out. we have to say that of course in the united states and particularly a lot of analysts have been saying that the united states getting militarily involved on the ground would be a big mistake considering the involvement in iraq and afghanistan and even a no fly zone was something that wasn't really cheered for by many and now more measures are being considered so whether or not something tough is going to take place in libya from the international community is the first big question of the day but the second one of course is whether or not whatever message the international community sends is going to end up being heard in libya we do

appreciate you keeping your eye on out for us argue correspondent on the theater. and as the u.n. is expected to vote on this no fly zone or war over libya and you certainly don't hear the united states calling for a no fly zone in our brain and back you haven't heard much at all from president obama in response to the unrest in the island nation are he is more or less there has more on what about me. god is great. the final words of this imported peaceful protesters in bahrain. before he appears to be shot allegedly by both trainee security forces since martial law was declared this week the bahraini government has crackdown on pro-democracy protesters. clearing them out of pearl square where they've been demonstrating. and viral videos the details can't be confirmed have been surfacing on the internet appearing to show police shooting protesters. point blank it's reminiscent of another

uprising against an autocrat. address the situation in libya when images and reports of violence against protesters they could doppies hands in libya reached the u.s. we saw the president stand. for margaret i think as lost legitimacy to lead. early on president obama called for plans for a no fly zone over libya now here at the united nations the security council has since taken the lead on that but meanwhile the united states has already sent warships along with humanitarian aid in libya so actually it's tough economic sanctions on the country essentially freezing it out of u.s. banking systems and reports suggest the u.s. has also played a more cofer role in the north african conflict an opposition that the cia has for thirty years is right now. according to people in

direct contact with activists on the ground in bahrain they too are begging for help from the u.s. . the u.s. has a military base in the island country the navy's powerful fifth fleet and six thousand troops are stationed. where and in response to the brutal crackdown the u.s. president has wielded his authority to pick up the phone and call the king of bahrain the president expressed his deep concern over the violence in bahrain and stressed the need for maximum restraint words the forces on the ground now backed by one thousand saudi arabian troops don't appear to be listening to critics say that talk doesn't amount to any help for the bahraini people it amounts to this absolutely there's a double standard in the way to u.s. deals with friend versus foe unlikely b.-a reign is a strong u.s.

ally in the oil rich persian gulf it's all about oil it's also all about geo political military strategy the us has a lot of military assets in the persian gulf right now we want to make sure they stay there u.s. interests coming at the cost of people's lives and at the cost of the values of human rights and democracy the u.s. claims to care so much about and some of the blood is worthless and blood is more important it's just critical a stand. against everything that's been through your look at american old apache helicopter gunships you know. protesters in the capital and that is where the you know just instructions on the issue tacitly behind. or against depending on the threat to u.s. interests not to lives or in mr r.t. new.